Quotes about Bad luck

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, too, he was sentimental, and, like most sentimental people, he was both cruel and abused. Also, he had much bad luck, and it was not all of it his own. He had died in a trap that he had helped only a little to set, and they had all betrayed him in their various ways before he died. All sentimental people are betrayed so many times. Nick could not write about him yet, although he would, later